Hot-Swapping IDE Drives?

Patman asks: "I've recently taken a new job where I'll need to be making drive images and such for quite a few IDE drives - say a few a day. I need the ability to 'hot-swap' IDE drives into a running Linux or Windows system. The systems that I'm using are fairly standard IBM desktop PCs, I've found references on Google to IDE->USB converter cables and IDE->USB converter boxes. Does anyone have experience with those? Some come with drivers for Windows - has anyone used them under Linux? Does the mass storage USB code deal with them accurately? Barring that, does anyone have any other ideas? External hot-swapping would be ideal, although an internal solution would be doable, too."

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Whatever

[Anonymous Coward]

you'll be hot swapping weiners in your ass, am i rite?

Re:Dissertation on the uselessness of Linux zealot

[ClioCJS]

Amen! I've been using computers at least 4 hours a day since 1985, and I wholeheartedly agree. Unix is great to work under when someone ELSE is responsible for the machine, but if *I* have to do it I'm going to install a windows box. Crashes? Maybe once a month. Unix? Never did what I want. Only wasted my time. 4 hours to compile nethack? fuck that.

Ahhh my eyes!!!

[Ayanami Rei]

Your website is ATROCIOUS. Tech's ACM should voluntarily disband for letting it grace their servers.
No, you know what? They should disband because they let you in. Because you're a GODDAMN MORON! Do you enjoy replying to trolls, knowing that the original poster is laughing at your gullibility (your inability to even work something as simple as OS X or Mandrake notwithstanding)

Now I have to cut my own eyes out. I think they went gangrene. Thanks a lot, buddy.

I don't have a mom you insensitive clod!

[Ayanami Rei]

Liar!
And my dad (well sort of), eh, well, I'd rather not talk about it.
::crying::
::sniff:: anyway. Yeah, I realize the website is old... so is mine (don't look, I'm warning you!!!), I'm just trying to make you feel like a jerk.
(I mean 4hrs to compile nethack? What major were you at tech anyway... god.)
But honestly. Really. That troll appears like 15 times a day in every thread. Don't ever reply to that. Even if you think it's funny, or insightful.

Because really it's not. It's like replying to spam and ridiculing the sender, or whatever. It just encourages them. Validation for the cut and paste morons sitting around, masturbating in their parents' basement. Don't give them the satisfaction.

Immature children, all of them. ALL OF YOU!!!
(you know who you are...)